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This Spicy Walnut Butter is an easy DIY nut butter recipe made with toasted walnuts and spices you’ll find in your cupboard! If you’ve never tried walnut butter before, you are definitely missing out!
I have an obsessive personality. I get obsessive over certain foods, TV shows, music and the 9-week old English bulldog named Petunia who I met last week. I’ll talk about my “obsession-du-jour” incessantly to a point where I actually overdose on it. Nut butter is no exception to this rule.
If you’re unaware of my obsession with nut butter, then you are either a) new to the blog or b) a skimmer. I love me some nut butter of all kinds. Peanut, almond, pistachio, you name it, I’ve made it! I rarely buy nut butters for this reason. Unless someone decides to pay me for my nut butter consumption, it is cheaper for me to make them than buy it in stores.
But more than anything, I need to keep making new nut butters because my obsessive personality causes me to go overkill on whichever one I have on hand. I’ve figured out the only way for me to not get turned off by nut butters is to keep at least 5 open jars in my house at all times. This means that currently I have 1 jar of almond butter, 1 jar of peanut butter, 1 jar of coconut butter, 1 jar of pumpkin seed butter and 1 jar of this delightful spicy walnut butter open.
I cycle through each. A little almond butter with my waffles, some peanut butter with an apple, coconut butter straight from the jar and my new favourite snack, a banana with walnut butter and chocolate chips. I’ve officially eaten this for dessert 6 nights in a row. This means that 1 month from now, after I’ve eaten it for 30 days straight, the thought of banana + walnut butter + chocolate chips will make me nauseous. Whyyyyyyyyy?!?!
As delicious as this walnut nut butter is, one day it will be added to the “things I’ve ODed on” list which also includes All Bran Bars, Grey’s Anatomy, anything by Avicii and sadly, creamsicles. One day I will learn moderation…I hope.
PrintSpicy Walnut Butter
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: about 2 cups 1x
Ingredients
- 3 cups walnuts
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp cloves
- pinch of cayenne
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Spread walnuts out on a baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 mins.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 10 mins.
- Add walnuts to food processor and process until it reaches “butter” consistency.
- Add in spices and continue processing until well combined.
- Store in an airtight container or jar in the refrigerator.
Do you have an obsessive personality? Have you ever “ODed” on something?
I OD on nut butter, Greek yogurt, and spinach all day err-day.
I’ve always been afraid of walnut butter because I fear it might be bitter, but this spicy walnut butter looks…well, spicayyy. Which is a good thing 🙂
When I read the title of this post, I was totally expecting a savoury nut butter. I’m glad this was sweet though- cayenne in sweet things is so fun for something different!
You photograph nut butters like nobody’s business. I’ve never been able to make them look pretty, but you sure do, EVERY TIME. What a fun twist on walnut butter! I’ve never tried pistachio or pumpkin seed … mmm, as if I need more nut butters lying around the house! You top me with five, I think my max was three 🙂 Looks delicious, pinning!
Can you believe I have yet to make my own nut butter? I think I’m secretly afraid of setting my food processor or blender on fire. Gonna have to get around to it, though… Especially since I haven’t been able to find Justin’s maple AB anywhere 🙁
I love walnut butter – I am intrigued by the addition of spice to yours! It looks so amazingly drippy as well!
I have a rather obsessive personality – all or nothing and all that jazz. I have mellowed out dramatically in my early twenties thank goodness, trying for this thing called balance 😉 . I made myself sick of sushi after a sushi making course thing – I still can’t face the stuff!
Oh how I love nut butters too! I also have about 5 jars open at all times, and I like switching them up. Walnut butter is not one that I have in the house, so I may need to make this!
We are so the same – except I never get out of my peanut butter phase lol. At all times I have 16 jars from Peanut Butter & Co. in the pantry. Just Crunch Time and Mighty Maple but that more than satisfies me, several times a day!
Mmm nut butters. They make me happy. I still have not ventured into making my own. One day.
Yes – I have a very obsessive personality. I have to be careful about adding in new TV shows, games/apps on my phone, and food – yikes!!!
I never even thought about making any nut butter spicy.
Haha moderation is tough when it comes to things that are as yummy as nut butters~ Great recipe 🙂